Former president Donald Trump has ramped up his baseless election fraud allegations and continued to deny whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election if he loses, as part of the closing argument to his reelection bid. However, with Election Day only one week away, it seems that voters are ready to put the Big Lie behind them and accept the outcome of Nov. 5.
That conclusion comes from a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted online between Oct. 18-22 among 2,808 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.
The new study shows that the vast majority of voters, 86%, is prepared to accept the results of the presidential election as legitimate, regardless of which candidate wins. By comparison, two-thirds of respondents believe Trump is not prepared to do the same. Fewer than half as many, 30%, also believe this about Vice President Kamala Harris.
The public's readiness to accept the results is up from 79% in October 2020 and essentially unchanged since August, when the same survey was conducted by the news outlet.
Most notably, that number is still high among Trump supporters, 81% of which say they will also accept any outcome as legitimate. That figure, however, is even higher among Harris supporters, which 92% say they will say the same.
However, concerns about the electoral process itself remain divided as Trump continues spewing baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen and the same might happen during the 2024 cycle.
Because of this, 93% of Democrats are confident that the votes in the presidential election will be counted accurately, falling to 68% of independents and just 51% of Republicans. Acceptance of 2020 election results also vary widely by parties. For instance, 65% of Republicans say Biden did not win the election, compared with 29% of independents and just 3% of Democrats.
The results come with Election Day just one week away, and Trump's false claims about election fraud remaining at an all-time high.
In a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Trump delved deep into the subject. The interview, released on Friday, coincided with Trump's posts on his social media network that included threats to prosecute lawyers, voters and election officials he deems to have "cheated" in the 2024 election.
"I won by like— they say I lost by like— I didn't lose," Trump said during the interview.
Trump's own attorney generally said there were no signs of significant fraud during 2020. Likewise, the Republican-run state Senate in Michigan, one of the swing states where Trump claimed fraud occurred, came to the same conclusion after a lengthy investigation. Trump and his supporters also lost more than 50 lawsuits trying to overturn the election.
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